LARRY ANDERSON
​David H. Koch '62 Head Coach

Embracing the “championship approach” – Passion, Hard work, Accountability, Toughness, and Family– has been the calling card for Head Coach Larry Anderson, who recently completed his 30th season guiding the Engineers of MIT in 2024-25. 

Anderson joined the MIT athletic department in 1995 as the 18th head coach in the program’s storied 119-year history. Established in 1900, nine years after the game of basketball was invented, the MIT basketball program continued to develop under Anderson, earning the New England Basketball Coaches Association award for Most Improved Team in 1998. On November 29, 2008, Anderson surpassed legendary Jack Barry as the winningest coach in the program’s history. His teams have averaged over 21 wins per season since 2009 and he achieved his 300th win on January 10, 2015. 

In the 2019-20 season, Anderson earned his 400th career victory in a road victory at Lasell College.

Anderson’s regular-season accomplishments have resulted in an impressive and unprecedented string of nine NCAA tournament bids, highlighted by a Final Four run as a national semi-finalist in 2012. In addition, he is the only coach in the program’s history to lead MIT to a No. 1 national ranking. Coach Anderson and the Engineers have been a fixture on the national basketball scene, ranked in the Top 25 eight of the past 13 seasons.

In 2017-18, Anderson's squad captured the NEWMAC Championship for the second straight season before advancing to the Elite Eight for just the second time in program history. In 2018-19, the Engineers claimed the NEWMAC regular-season crown and had three NEWMAC First Team All-Conference honorees.

To top off an incredible list of accolades in a long and distinguished career, Anderson was inducted into The New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009. During his team’s historic 2011-12 campaign, Anderson received the Jack Bennett Man of the Year Award presented by CollegeInsider.com. The award represents winning with integrity and is presented annually to a Non-Division I Head Coach who achieves success on the basketball court while displaying great moral integrity off of the court as well. At the NABC Coaches Convention awards presentation, in typical Larry Anderson fashion, he “spread the love” by recognizing the many collaborators over the years that helped build the program one day at a time.

“In this profession, there’s no way you can be successful without support – from the student-athletes, to the administration, to the community. You can take a mediocre coach give him all the support in the world and he can take the team to heights unheard of. That is why coaches are successful.”

Anderson arrived at MIT via Rust College in Holly Springs, Miss., where he graduated in 1987. After serving as captain his junior and senior years, Anderson remained at his alma mater as an assistant coach. While maintaining his devotion to the game and to Rust, he eventually assumed additional roles as the Associate Director of Athletics and Director of Student Activities.

In 28 seasons at MIT, Anderson, has embodied the "championship approach" philosophy and his achievements are unprecedented: 

• 426 career wins, and over 140 NEWMAC wins

• NCAA Final Four (2012)

• NCAA Elite Eight (2018)

• 9 NCAA Tournaments bids

• 10 NCAA Tournament victories

• New England Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee (2009)

• Two-time New England Coach of the Year

• Three-time NEWMAC Coach of the Year

• College Insider’s Jack Bennett Man of the Year Award

• College Insider’s Glenn Robinson Division III National Coach of the Year Award Finalist

• National Player of the Year – Jimmy Bartolotta (2009)

• Coached 3 MIT graduates to play professional basketball

• Nationally Ranked in d3Hoops.com's Top 25 including No. 1 in the country

• 7 All-Americans

• 13 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans

• 2 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans of the Year

• 3 d3Hoops.com Northeast Region Players of the Year

• 11 d3Hoops.com Northeast Region Players

• 1 d3Hoops.com Northeast Region Rookie of the Year

• 1 Jostens Trophy award winner

• 6 NEWMAC Tournament Championships

• 4 NEWMAC Regular-Season Championships

• 5 NEWMAC Players of the Year

• 5 NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Year

• 26 NEWMAC All-Conference Players

• 88 NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Players

• 6 NEWMAC Rookies of the Year

• 5 NEWMAC Tournament Most Outstanding Players

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CHRISTIAN MURPHY
Associate Head Coach

Christian Murphy will begin his sixth season at MIT as part of head coach Larry Anderson's staff. This will be his third year as associate head coach. Murphy serves as the program’s recruiting coordinator, director of operations, director of player development, and director of the summer Basketball Academy at MIT.

While at MIT, Murphy recruited and coached back-to-back Rookie of the Years in the NEWMAC, Rome Delgado-Gonzalez in 2022-23, who was also named D3Hoops.com Region II Rookie of the Year, and Isaac Dobie in 2023-24, who led the NEWMAC in scoring, free-throws made and attempted. Murphy also coached Ian Hinkley ’22, the school’s all-time leading three-point scorer, who earned First Team All-NEWMAC and NABC Second Team All-District in his senior season. In addition, Murphy has coached twenty-five Academic All-Conference selections.

Prior to MIT, Murphy spent two seasons as a graduate assistant under Eric Musselman at the University of Nevada. The Wolf Pack made a NCAA Sweet 16 appearance in 2018 and were ranked as an AP Top 10 team in 2019. He spent four years as a student manager for the Butler Bulldogs under Brad Stevens and Chris Holtmann, where the program made three NCAA Round of 32 appearances. At the Division I level, Murphy worked with five future NBA players & twenty future pros, which included all-conference selections Caleb Martin, Cody Martin, Jordan Caroline, Kellen Dunham, Kelan Martin, Roosevelt Jones, and Rotnei Clarke.

In between Butler and Nevada, Murphy was assistant coach and head JV coach for Craig Douma at Central College. There he was responsible for the JV program, recruiting efforts for varsity, and initiating the program’s first alumni newsletters. During that season, Central ranked ninth in Division III for three-point field goals made. Senior Colby Taylor also became the school’s all-time leading scorer and was named First Team All-Conference, and D3hoops.com First-Team All-West Region.

Murphy received his bachelor's degree in Organizational Leadership from Butler in 2016 and master’s degree in Higher Education Administration from Nevada in 2019.​

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JOHN PIEMONTESE
Assistant Coach

John Piemontese enters his third year as an assistant coach for the MIT men’s basketball program in the 2024-25 season.
 
He came to MIT from Nauset Regional High School in Eastham, Mass., where he served as the head coach of the girl’s basketball team from 2019-2022. During that time, Piemontese’s team advanced to the 2020 MIAA South Quarterfinals, captured the 2021 Cape and Islands League Co-Championship and advanced to the 2021 Cape and Islands League Tournament Final. In that stretch, he also had six student-athletes go on to play collegiately across Divisions I, II and III.
 
Piemontese also has 14 years of head coaching experience on the men’s side, including as the head coach at Bunker Hill Community College from 1988-1993. He also has three boy’s basketball high school stops, with the most recent one coming at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School from 2004-2007. Collegiately, Piemontese has been an assistant coach at Bunker Hill, Bridgewater State and Salem State.
 
His other experience includes serving as the head girl’s golf coach at Dennis-Yarmouth for two seasons, as well as eight years as athletic director between Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School and Canton High School.
 
A 1985 graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Piemontese earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He then went on to the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where he graduated with a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction in 1989.

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OWEN CARLSON
Assistant Coach

Owen Carlson enters his first year as an assistant coach for the MIT men’s basketball program in the 2024-25 season.

Carlson came to MIT from Millbrook School in Millbrook, NY, where he served as assistant coach of the boy’s varsity basketball team under head coach and NEPSAC Basketball President Billy Thom, helping the Mustangs advance to the 2024 NEPSAC Championship for the first time in program history. 
 
In addition to his coaching experience, Carlson spent the past year working as a journalist for the New England Recruiting Report, writing articles, operating social media, and working events, including the National Prep Championship Series.
 
A 2023 graduate of Rhodes College, Carlson earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music with an emphasis on production. He graduated high school with a concentration in Video Production from Tampa Prep in 2019, where he started for Joe Fenlon, the winningest coach in Florida high school basketball history.

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INDRAN RATNATHICAM
Leadership/Alumni Relations

Indran "Indy" Ratnathicam has served on the MIT coaching staff for the past 24 seasons. He focuses primarily on alumni relations and leadership development in addition to practice and game preparation, on-the-floor coaching, player development, and recruiting. Prior to becoming a coach, Indran was a four-year player on the MIT basketball team, where he was co-captain of the 1997-98 campaign that finished 18-7 under Head Coach Larry Anderson.

Indy graduated from MIT in 1998, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and has an MBA from the Harvard Business School.  Since "leaving" MIT, he has pursued a full-time career in technology and business, and is currently Vice President of Marketing & Strategy at FirstFuel Software, an energy software start-up in Lexington, MA. Prior to this, Indy's non-basketball has included roles at the global consultancy, The Boston Consulting Group, and other startup and venture capital firms.

Indy is originally from Vancouver, Wash.